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The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

External Research Fellow

Abdurrahman Aydemir is a faculty member at Sabancı University. Before joining Sabancı University in 2007, he held a senior economist position at Statistics Canada (2002-2007), and was a research associate at the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (2001-2002). His recent research focuses on immigration, education, and intergenerational mobility, and he previously worked on volatility modeling in finance. His current research is on the evolution and impacts of immigrant social networks, development, and education. He received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in 2003 and his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University in 1994.